Students at Brown, MIT, Columbia and Other Colleges Risk Arrest, Retaliation to Protest War on Gaza - Democracy Now

[JackCoop]

Students on college campuses across the U.S. have been protesting Israel’s U.S.-funded assault on Gaza amid an intensifying crackdown from school authorities. At Brown University, 20 Jewish students who participated in a sit-in to demand Brown consider a divestment resolution were arrested Wednesday. Hundreds of fellow students sang Jewish prayer songs outside Brown’s University Hall in solidarity with the sit-in.

Students with the MIT Coalition Against Apartheid held a peaceful protest despite threats from the school’s administration.

MIT student 1: “We are all here because MIT has now threatened to suspend all peaceful protesters who took part in the No Science for Genocide demonstration. And we must fight for this voice, because we are Gaza’s voice outside of Palestine.”

MIT student 2: “There’s a lot of energy around this No Science for Genocide claim, because a lot of people here, they come to MIT because they care about science, they care about engineering. They want to do good for the world. But the thing is that they come to MIT and become disillusioned, because we find out that what our work is going towards is not for good, is not for people. It’s going towards war, endless war.”

Here in New York City, students at the Columbia School of Social Work held a sit-in protest despite multiple threats of academic sanctions.

Link: https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/10/headlines/students_at_brown_mit_columbia_and_other_colleges_risk_arrest_retaliation_to_protest_war_on_gaza

[Think. Again.]

1. K&R

[malaise]

2. Good

They have 1st amendment rights too.

[Basic LA]

3. Shades of mid 60's anti-war movement.

This awareness can spread from campuses into the culture worldwide and become unstoppable. All we need now is the music.

[brooklynite]

4. No sympathy, and a misleading headline...

Students weren't arrested for protesting. They were arrested for a sit-in which interferes with the rights of others and is an intentional form of civil disobedience. Being arrested comes with the choice of action.

[LauraInLA]

5. I posted earlier an article about MIT's

failure to handle this situation. The president says they were loathe to have these students arrested because it might affect their student visas. Jewish students and professors have complained of harrassment, which apparently also has not been addressed. It’s a mess everywhere.